Owning a full auto weapon in the U.S. is an expensive proposition. An application has to pay a US$200 tax stamp then wait for months before the permit comes in which sometimes can take a year and then spend thousands and thousands of dollars just to purchase a full auto gun. Just for the application, a lot of requirements will be asked for such as photo, fingerprints, and pages and pages of forms to submit to the ATF that one may just settle for a semi-auto weapon to make it easier to own a gun.
Now, semi-auto gun owners may get to experience the fun of firing at full auto without breaking the law. Presently, shooters resort to the Bump Fire technique that uses the recoil of a semi-auto gun to shoot rapidly to simulate full auto fire. A company called AutoGlove USA has announced that they are taking orders or their AutoGlove that allows a shooter to simulate full auto firing with semi-auto weapons without doing Bump Fire.
Even better, it does not violate any law such as modifying a gun to shoot full auto or put an attachment to it do make it shoot in full auto. It is an actual glove that comes either as Tactical Glove or a Sporting Glove and uses a patented Trigger Assist Design (TAD) to simulate full auto shooting with a semi automatic. It is designed to work with many semi-automatic guns rather than tied to a specific weapon line.
According to the company: “The trigger assist device enables a person to pull the trigger at a faster, controllable, and predetermined rate of fire, even if the person has a disability that may otherwise prevent them engaging the trigger.”
They are now accepting orders for the AutoGlove MagDump configuration which costs US$299.00 for early birds. They will be doing the first batch of production in September and the price will be at US$349.00 after the early bird sale.
Future versions of the AutoGlove will be the Multi-Function which will have Double Tap, 3-Round Burst, & Mag Dump Selections which the owner will have to configure and the 3-Round Burst Configuration which is being tested as of this writing.
Will airsofters have use for this? Well, we have not tried this out to be honest, but it is interesting to own the Multi-Function over the AutoGlove if it ever gets releases. Airsoft Gas Blowback owners can configure their shooting modes without doing anything to their airsoft guns.